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For those who prefer their Onion-type humor with some Middle Eastern spice, a new, satirical, Muslim-oriented, faux news website, The Hummus, launched in December, to little or no fanfare.

The Hummus, which according to a report Tuesday on Buzzfeed is the brainchild of a trio of Muslim-American Silicon Valley types who wish to remain anonymous, is funny and topical, offering humorous insight into how young Western Muslims engage with the stereotypes of their own community.

The founders of the site told Buzzfeed that they are practicing Muslims themselves and wouldn’t be criticizing the “pure religion” of Islam, but the venture “could be an outlet for expressing the frustrations that we had as Muslims in America experiencing Islamophobia, the conflation of culture with religion (both here and overseas) and the funny results that we can all relate to.”